Alice Kuipers Quotes
I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
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'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.
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I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.
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I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.
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In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
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I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
